Join the IRS: Deal Crack with Pay!

by J. Orlin Grabbe

The five crack-dealing, taxpayer-file-selling IRS employees
at the Covington, Kentucky, office I reported on in previous posts
were placed on administrative leave, I was told by the office of public
affairs.

What the office of public affairs forgot to tell me, was these
employees were placed on administrative leave WITH PAY
. A paid vacation
would, of course, prevent their obtaining more taxpayer files to sell for
$500 a pop. But it would give them more free time to sell cocaine--this
activity funded by the taxpayer money their IRS colleagues were
collecting.

The office of public affairs (606-292-5652) began getting 30 to 40
phone calls a day after my Internet post. So they hooked up an answering
with a message promising to return calls, if you left your name and number.
But I hear they weren't actually calling anyone back. Just collecting those
names and numbers, I guess.

"I would like to get my hands on that Orlin Grabbe," one IRS
executive was overheard to say. Why? Did she want to sell me some
crack?

By the way, do you think she calculated all the itemized
deductions correctly on the latest 1040 she filed? (You can purchase
a copy for $500, I hear.)

You might want to take a peak at
http://www.cato.org, and look
for Policy Analysis No. 222, "Why You Can't Trust the IRS," by Daniel
J. Pilla. Also read #193, "The Economic Impact of Replacing Federal
Income Taxes with a Sales Tax," by Laurence J. Kotlikoff. These are
published by the CATO Institute, a Washington think tank, at 1000
Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001, phone 202-842-0200,
fax 202-842-3490.

Don't you think it's time to get rid of the crack-dealing,
tax-collecting, privacy-invading IRS? I mean, after you've had time to
purchase tax files on all your political enemies, of course.